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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

27 March - Blogs I'm Following II

(A U.S. Air Force McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II aircraft (s/n 65-0882) from the 11th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron being shot down by an SA-2 on 12 August 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Capts. Edwin Atterberry and Thomas Parrott were captured after ejecting. Atterberry died in the hands of the North Vietnamese after an escape attempt and Parrott was released at the end of the war. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dak To, South Vietnam. An infantry patrol moves up to assault the last Viet Cong position after an attempted overrun of the artillery position by the Viet Cong during Operation Hawthorne. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in the lobby of the theater immediately after the conclusion of the telecast of the 62nd Academy Awards (Jane is holding Ted Turner's arm) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 10: Actress/author Jane Fonda arrives at Barnes & Noble Union Square to promote 'Prime Time: Making The Most Of All Of Your Life' at Barnes & Noble Union Square on August 10, 2011 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Mumbai: Testing times lie ahead for citizens. After a brief interlude for a greater part of last year, Mumbaikars are feeling the chills again, as the dreaded swine flu virus is back to stalk the city. Wh...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old has died of bird flu in Indonesia. He is the country's sixth fatality from the virus so far this year. Health ministry spokeswoman Murti Utami said Tuesday the boy ...

Lanzarote and Fuerteventura see their tourism-dependent economy threatened by plans for exploratory wells in Atlantic Plans approved by the Spanish government this month to start prospecting for oil off ...

WILDLIFE medics were last night keeping a close eye on a dolphin which stranded itself on Cromarty beach yesterday. The Scottish SPCA, members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue and the coastguard ...

A sperm whale became stranded on Snæfellsnes. According to Skúli Alexanderson, a local resident, the whale is easy to get to and several passers-by have gone down to look at it. “You can go up to the whale...

The eurozone needs "the mother of all firewalls" if it is to protect the EU's single currency from debt contagion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. Angel Gurr...

Begin a neverending nuclear winter with every country whose religion or oil industry doesn't line up with our interests. Make the water you drink unsafer. Make the food you eat unsafer. Make the air you br...

The Gay Secretary The reality here is that *no one in their right mind* in the US State Department, White House, or Pentagon can *possibly* offer the American people* any* honest metric by which "progres...

Britain's largest cemetery is on fire after the "tinder box dry conditions" sparked wildfires. The blaze is raging over 17 acres of the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey. Around 40 firef...

PARIS – A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman's attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera news network -- but not by him, French police said Tuesday, raising the specter of a...

*Ghana by Eli Shany אלי שני * Ghana is having elections. *Ghana is doing well. * Its economy is growing at nearly 10 % a year. It has oil, cocoa and gold. The World Bank now describes Ghana as a 'middle-i...

Gobabis — Three workers from Farm Kroonster 448 in the Omaheke Region died in the Gobabis State Hospital last week from an illness related to anthrax. It is suspected that five farm workers of Farm Kroons...

Floods brought by rain over Southern Luzon hit at least three areas in Oriental Mindoro Tuesday, with authorities evacuating at least 20 people to safer ground. Office of the Civil Defense Region IV-B he...

LOUISA, Va. (AP) - Dominion Virginia Power is repairing a leak in a steam generator pipe at its North Anna Nuclear Power Station in central Virginia but the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission s...

not happy with chemtrailing our lower atmosphere, NASA are starting a pilot scheme to chemtrails the upper reaches of the atmosphere to calculate the 'higher jetstream''s trajectory. Imagine if more Privat...

Via Kady, from his *committee theatrics* on Anonymous' videos: "I don't believe Members of Parliament should be held hostage," Toews notes, and praises the speaker for upholding the Lamoureux ruling on...

First, I don't buy the criticism John Van Dongen is just trying to keep a job in politics and thinks he would lose as a Liberal in his riding. My experience had been that he is an ethical person and I acce...

Incodents of anti-Semitism are now commonplace in much of Europe; all over Sweden, in Amsterdam & Rotterdam, in Paris, Marseilles & Toulouse and now in Brussels: 'At around 15:40, four individuals of Ara...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s defense ministry says an air force helicopter has crashed off the island’s southeast coast and five crew members are missing. The ministry says the S70-C chopper disappeared fro...

Guatemalan volcanoes Santiaguito and Fuego increased their activity in the last hours and the authorities recommended on Monday took all the necessary precautions with the surrounding air traffic. The di...

You know, this whole F-35 business is absurd to the point of hilarious. Here's the government and air force trying to buy the most expensive warplane ever, sight pretty much unseen, from a company so full ...

'Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the ...

SAO PAULO — Four members of the same Brazilian family were killed by a lightning strike during a heavy storm in the Amazon region. Brazil’s national space institute known as Inpe tracks lightning strikes ...

Today our old friend, former Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter (D-NH), will be joining us for a live blogging session at Crooks and Liars at 2pm (ET). Carol's unlikely grassroots victory in 2006 over a Rah...

Reuters) - A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French firm w...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 1.1 km (0.7 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:22:00 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles)...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has toured a former rebel stronghold devastated by his forces as Damascus accepted a UN-backed deal to end the bloody conflict. Mr Assad was shown around the Baba Amr di...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:03 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) ESE...

*NATURAL NEWS* has a very disturbing report. The state of Michigan has a thing about pigs: *"Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of...

[This blog is owned and operated by an unemployed, single woman who depends on the kindness of strangers for all its operating costs, not to mention any personal comforts like food and car insurance. Your ...

We were treated to a pair of Alberta election polls last night - both showing the PCs and Wildrose in a statistical tie. Given previous 2012 polls have shown Redford between 5 and 37 points ahead, this co...

*Well over 10,000 computers used in attack on NDP leadership vote "The company that organized the electronic voting system at the NDP leadership convention is now blaming an orchestrated attack involving te...

As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words but sometimes links to news items help a little. Such as this item from Chile in which four men, including the one above, were arrested in connection with...

A rare positive catch. Brendan Nyhan notes that the NYT and reporters Elisabeth Bumiller and Alliison Kopicki do a great job in writing up the latest Times/CBS survey about Afghanistan -- by placing the re...

Periodically, I find very interesting articles that usually do not fit in the overall theme of this blog... But I find to be intriguing enough that I want to share with everyone who reads my material. I c...

Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.” “His family should be outraged at the fact that they...

*Brad Wall continues to amaze. His small minded mentality is driving the film industry from the province of Saskatchewan. In spite of rational and logical arguments to the contrary, Wall has decided to kil...

Nakum Journal, an Indigenous Journal is available through Amazon. The first two issues of this journal are available at: http://www.amazon.com/Nakum-Indigenous-Cultures-Institute/dp/1475028822/ref=cm_sw_em...

Trayvon Martin was suspended from school three times in the months before he was shot dead by a neighborhood watchman, it emerged today. The new claims, revealed in a leaked school report, paint a differen...

A 5-year-old girl jumping on a bed was injured by a bullet early Saturday when a gun beneath the mattress went off, police said. The incident occurred at about 12:22 a.m. Saturday at a Marquette Park resi...

A luggage room at one of Logan Airport’s terminals was evacuated Monday morning after a strange odor was detected in a bag. Authorities cleared out the screening room at terminal A, which serves Delta a...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We don’t know if it’s true:* Did George Zimmerman tell Sanford police the truth about the events of February 26? We have no way of knowing. But in this morning’s edition, the Or...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *The Washington Post catches up:* We’re on a semi-reduced work schedule this week due to a matter of national importance. For that reason, we’ll take this occasion to clap oursel...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We’d have to say it depends:* In this morning’s New York Times, three journalists report the results of a new survey concerning the health care law. To read the report, click he...

[Enenews]: Atlantic: Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech — “Seemed to suggest that the nuclear crisis is not over” — Left out of all major evening news programs (VIDEO) http:/...

Happy Birthday to Mal Reynolds himself, Nathan Fillion, 41. You know, Castle is reasonably good fun (although I haven't actually seen any of it this season, I don't think, so I have no idea whether it's sl...

Welcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...

Spring has arrived, and with it the natural urge to reconnect with the land. As an Urban-dweller presently trapped in an area which resembles the opening scenes of Monty Python's Meaning of Life, (albeit ...

*March 27, 2012* Washington's relentless pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and alleged whistle-blower Bradley Manning, is no secret. And for some experts, the US government's high-profile...

The Council of Canadians, representing electors in seven ridings where "irregularities" have been clearly reported, is pushing the voter suppression scandal into *federal court*. A citizen advocacy group...

Empires Then and Now by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research Canada, March 27, 2012 *Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the reso...

*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *Part 2—Journalist dons a new hat:* Watching the press corps assemble the facts is often a troubling experience. Yesterday, we considered a factual conflict about George Zimmerma...

Steny Hoyer, the Democratic face of transpartisan political corrupt in the DC Establishment, was in Easton begging voters there to support one of his endangered cronies, Tim Holden. In a lie big enough to...

As I mentioned in yesterday's post I had spent the afternoon down around the Snye. While I had a few errands to attend to I couldn't quite contain my inner child who suggested I cross over the Clearwater w...

Lawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country's sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir: If there’s a theme, it’s market e...

*UPDATE # 1 BELOW * The Syrian government has agreed to accept a peace plan proposed by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, al Jazeera television quoted his spokesman as saying. "The Syrian government ...

(Reuters) - Stuffed into a time capsule, this ancient university town's local newspaper would give future historians a good idea of the pain that Europe's first financial crisis of the century inflicted o...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama voiced doubt on Tuesday on the prospects for progress with Moscow on missile defense until after the November U.S. election as he staunchly defended remarks caught on ca...

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court confronts the core of President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Tuesday when it hears arguments on whether Congress had the power to require most people in the United States...

(Reuters) - A massive cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday and an air and ...

(Reuters) - Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, his spokesman said on Tuesday, even as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebe...

(Financial Times) -- To listen to many eurozone policymakers, one would imagine all is now well with their two-year long struggle with the sovereign debt crisis. Progress on plans for a beefed-up "firewa...

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama expressed hope Tuesday that the United States and Pakistan can arrive at a "balanced approach" to relations as he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for t...

(CNN) -- North Korea said Tuesday that it would not abandon its plan to carry out a satellite launch next month despite recent warnings from President Barack Obama over the move. The North "will not give...

(CNN) -- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and miles from the ruptured well at the heart of the disaster, researchers reported Monday....

(CNN) -- World leaders are meeting in Seoul this week to discuss how to deal with the threat of nuclear terrorism. The effort to prevent the misuse of nuclear materials and the spread of nuclear weapons ...

Sanford, Florida (CNN) -- That George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is not in dispute. Everything else is -- from the circumstances, to the motivatio...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday the threat of nuclear weapons remains a potent challenge for the globe to confront, telling foreign leaders that "the security of the world d...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The leaders of South Korea, the United States and China issued stark warnings Tuesday about the threat of nuclear terrorism during the final day of a nuclear summit that has so ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Monday found that the water level in the No. 2 reactor's primary containment vessel was only 60 centimeters deep when it check...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Tuesday at a global nuclear summit in Seoul that Japan will boost its measures to fight against nuclear terrorism, drawing on lessons from the ...

A Tokyo ward office has apologized for mistakenly announcing major earthquakes via its community wireless system earlier this month although the actual quakes were relatively small. The Bunkyo Ward Offic...

Test decontamination work in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, where part of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is located, has reduced radiation dosages by over 60 percent, the Japan ...

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) had told the government's Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) in writing that it would oppose any plans to step up preventative measures against nucl...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:02:13 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) North...

The Chinese government has said it has "no information" about the death of British businessman Neil Heywood which has been linked to a political scandal engulfing the Communist Party. Mr Heywood was fou...

It could have been America’s answer to the Loch Ness Monster. The corpse of a large, beady-eyed and scaly creature washed ashore on South Carolina’s Folly Beach, much to the shock of locals. But a South ...

Two New York Police Department officers rushed to hospital on Sunday after their patrol car crashed into a lamppost in Brooklyn. The car was sent ploughing into the pole when it was struck in the side by ...

A father has been charged with the murder of his daughter after the baby died as a result of traumatic head injuries. Steven Cantrell, 21, was held on a count of first-degree murder after his child Jada ...

A deadly home explosion today ended a longstanding feud between a man fighting to keep dozens of chickens on his property and loan officers threatening foreclosure. Fifty-three-year-old Andrew Wordes, kn...

The federal government has slowly been demolishing the erstwhile mining town of Pincer, Oklahoma, after decades of aggressive mining left the area one of the most toxic in the nation. In 2009, residents ...

People who support the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Voter ID Legislation – turned into the proposed constitutional Amendment in Minnesota – state that people who are on Social Security or ...

Venus, Jupiter and the moon have appeared completely visible together at sunset tonight in an already exciting month for stargazers. In what astronomers call a conjunction, the two planets can be seen in ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:00:45 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23.6 miles) North...

Two bodies found in shallow grave near the Rouge River in Detroit are believed to be those of two women who were abducted last month. Armed men kidnapped Ashley Conaway, 22, and Abreeya Brown, 18, in Hamt...

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then cooled down nat...

Several giant Gambian pouch rats have been found recently on Florida's Grassy Key despite concerted efforts by conservation officials to eradicate them. Officials worry that the voracious rats, which gro...

Caught on an open mic during a photo op with outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, President Barack Obama did something very, very stupid. He got caught committing what is known in Washing...

Shocking: The graphic shows that earnings without Apple have actually been in decline since spring 2011 Apple’s success at selling consumer gadgets has made it the most valuable firm in the world. As a ...

A Smithsonian-associated museum is displaying an item it says is an 'authentic alien artifact' from a 1986 alleged UFO crash in Russia. The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas unveiled an exhibit ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.3 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:22:01 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) Sout...

Syria has accepted Kofi Annan's plan to end the country's bloody conflict, a spokesman for the UN-Arab League envoy has said. "The Syrian government has written to the joint special envoy Kofi Annan acce...

A university student who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after the Bolton player collapsed has been jailed for 56 days for making racially offensive comments on the site. Liam Stacey, 21, pos...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:41 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 mil...

*They said they were leaving.... * "France ponders early pullout from Afghanistan; 4 troops killed by member of local forces" by Steven Erlanger and Alissa J. Rubin | New York Times, January 21, 2012 P...

In this archived Project Camelot interview from 2008, John Lear talks about many different things; the Living Moon, MJ12, Nibiru, 2012, UFO's and Aliens, etc.. The interview starts off talking about when ...

*In Sweden all girls in Class 5 and 6 were given the option to be vaccinated within Swedish Schools, so I decided to take a poll to see what parents thought about this or if they were willing to have t...

A senior Pentagon official ordered an emergency review of the military's use of an anti-malaria drug known to have severe psychiatric side effects - nine days after the Afghan massacre in which a U.S. sol...

At a meeting with current Russian President Medvedev at a nuclear summit in Seoul, Barack Obama let slip when he thought the microphones were off that: "*This is my last election. After my election I have...

A person has died in a Colorado wildfire that destroyed at least five homes as raging flames sweep across the state. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, which hasn't released the victim's name or ...

Soldier: Kevin Corley was recently discharged from the Army after serving in Afghanistan His cousin Jerome was killed in the DEA raid A current and a former U.S. Army soldier were among three men busted i...

A young mother went to tragic desperate lengths to rid herself of the frustration of solo child-care, killing first her son, then herself. Kelli Sly, 23, of Indianola, was angry with her ex-husband for fa...

A church tried to teach its youth group a lesson by staging a raid in which unsuspecting teens were ‘kidnapped’ at gunpoint, forced into a van and made to watch one of their pastors being assaulted in his...

The mother of slain Trayvon Martin recently filed a trademark to protect the rights to his name as an attempt to control- and collect funds from- the masses of merchandise being produced in support of the...

Trayvon Martin was allegedly suspended from school when security officers found what they described as a 'burglary tool' and women’s jewellery in his backpack. But the revelation in a school report obtai...

Asylum seekers from Arab Spring countries and West African nations suffering civil strife surged into Europe last year new figures have revealed. The Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank,...

Rescue teams have been forced to step in to save thousands of fish languishing in a rapidly shrinking stretch of water. Under the ambitious plan, the fish are being removed from the six-mile Maxey Cut, w...

The BBC report this morning that: 'Israel has cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council, officials say, after it decided to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank.' I think that som...

A Russian man killed a drinking partner after he and his friends ran out of snacks at a vodka party - then sold the leftovers as pork at a market. The 35-year-old admitted stabbing his fellow drinker, 41,...

A crazed attacker who strapped butcher's knives to his hands and tried to kill three partygoers after lying in wait under a bed has been jailed indefinitely. Steven Shaw pounced while Robyn Little and Da...

Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, said today that there is not a deadline for ending the Syrian crisis, but it can't be allowed to drag on indefinitely. Mr Annan told reporte...

A property developer murdered his lover and put her in the front seat of his van to take her away to dispose of the body – only to be caught when he crashed into a hedge near their home, a court heard yes...

Disturbing video footage shot by Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah as he killed his victims emerged in Paris tonight. TV company Al Jazeera received the horrifying images on a computer memory stick send to ...

Solicitor Graeme Francis (pictured left) and his wife, Clare, have become the target of a mystery man known in the area by the ominous title 'Silent Stalker'. Posted signs showing e-fit photo seem incongr...

A drug that helps the immune system to break down cancerous tumours has been developed. It has worked on breast, bowel, prostate, ovarian, brain, bladder and liver cancers, while previous studies show it...

R2P: Imperial Conquest by Another Name by grtv - March 26, 2012 As the world recovers from one humanitarian peace bombing in Libya, and braces for another possible intervention in Syria, many are now a...

Few people on the bleak Yorkshire council estate that was once home to Karen Matthews failed to spot the irony that it was Mother’s Day when they learned that ‘Britain’s worst mum’ was to be released from...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was last night charged with ‘complicity in pimping in a vice ring’ – an offence which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Two judges in Lille spent up to ten hours quest...

A mother-of-six is demanding an NHS weight loss operation, despite admitting she has spent her life binging on junk food. Sara Agintas, tips the scales at a hefty 33 stone, but insists tax payers should ...

*Slave labour.* Mary Norris was a teenage servant in Kerry in Ireland. She took a forbidden night off. As a punishment, she was sent to a Catholic institution, 'the Magdalene laundry', an 'asylum' in Cor...

The crisis hitting Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is spreading as the U.S. Department of Justice monitors alleged hacking at two of the company's European satellite television firms. Two alleged incidents of...

A mass suicide attack which was to target buses in the Afghan capital of Kabul has been foiled. Intelligence officials seized 11 custom made 'suicide jackets' in the country's ministry of defence, less t...

Motorists are being held to ransom by 1,000 militant tanker drivers who yesterday voted for a national strike. The walkout, which threatens to wreck the Easter break, could close nearly 8,000 petrol stat...

Reintroducing predators such as dingoes and tasmanian devils into landscapes may help protect Australia's diminishing biodiversity, researchers say. A new paper to be published in the May edition of Tren...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:17:49 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) West of I...

A few blocks from West Colonial Drive in Orlando is a weathered, split-level house that has been in foreclosure since 2007. The longtime owner has lived there for nearly five years without making a paymen...

Despite glimmers of hope in the unemployment statistics and other economic indicators, housing remains in a slump. New Commerce Department data show that new homes sales fell 1.6 percent in February, whic...

Maybe now we know the true purpose for that giant domestic spy complex being built by the NSA in Utah. Attorney General Eric Holder approved a new list of guidelines for how long agencies of the federal ...

When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke donned his professorial cap and addressed 30 undergraduate students at George Washington University on Tuesday, he claimed it was all in the interest of transpar...

Emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, that group themselves as `BRICS' have proposed the creation of a multilateral development bank to coordinate their response to a...

Though, the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline (IP) may have become a tool for Pakistan to gain political mileage, with the US, which is working hard to thwart it covertly or overtly, it cannot be denied that Pakista...

Michigan and Oakland County would get millions of dollars under a judge's ruling Friday that national mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac illegally withheld real estate transfer taxes on foreclosed...

As global companies draw up contingency plans for a Greek exit from the euro, we examine the feasibility of Athens’ departure – from new drachmas to illegality and €1 trillion costs. It’s a tradition of ...

Stay or go? I feel like a Bill Moyers zygote. I have never achieved his serene altruism, not even close. I don't aspire to his higher moral purpose. Yet I've always felt a deep affinity for the man s...

Massive Federal deficits require higher taxes; ever-expanding public debt and higher debt service sets up a death spiral once new investment is crowded out by Federal borrowing. In only three more years ...

Musharraf admits “there is no doubt that Balochistan is the most backward and most deprived province of Pakistan. Successive governments since our independence are responsible for the neglect suffered by ...

(Reuters) - A spruced-up Baghdad is welcoming Arab leaders this week to declare that war is over and Iraq is open for business. To Um Qassim, carrying her shopping beside a rubbish-filled creek four hours...

Zhou Yongkang, a member of China's ruling Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and head of the country's 1.5 million-strong police force, is the latest and most senior leader to fall in the battle for contr...

(Reuters) - Every Tuesday evening dozens of homeowners who cannot pay their mortgages gather in a cramped community center near Madrid's main bullring to discuss strategy to fight their banks. Newcomers,...

An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He's diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in s...

Ben Bernanke’s smiling face on the cover of the April issue of The Atlantic is a testimony to how short America’s collective memory is. While the Fed chief is feted as the savior of the global economy tha...

The head of Dubai police has openly accused the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab Spring winners, of plotting to overthrow the Arab Gulf monarchies. “The Muslim Brotherhood, the force that has emerged from the...

The final stage of the crisis of the global monetary system is near. It’s the stage where investors realise the finances of the US government are worse than Greece and Italy and the UK. It’s the stage whe...

Another major military exercise is underway in the North, this time in Nunavik. More than 200 reservists arrived in Salluit, Quebec, over the weekend. They're from the 35th Canadian Brigade Group in Queb...

Nearly half of China's wealthiest families are planning to emigrate or are in the process of emigrating, according to a recent report. A survey of the wealthiest private individuals in 2011 carried out by...

New analyses by mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have added an explosive new dimension to one of the most politically charged debates about the housing crisis: Whether to reduce the amount of mo...

Couples show there are many ways — some easy, others not — to get back on track. The Great Recession is officially over, but for a huge number of Americans, serious debt lives on. U.S. households owe a ...

There have been several recent murders in which the media have vigorously propagated something that seems as unjustifiable prejudices right now. In Toulouse, France, they've been witnesses of shooting...

The “chicken ranch” proposed for Calgary back in 2003 by Danielle Smith, now leader of the Wildrose Party, may not have been exactly as illustrated. (You didn’t seriously think I was going to post a pictu...

[I wrote the bulk of this post very late at night while suffering a bout of insomnia. In the end, I ran out of energy and called it quits. Thus, I've edited the post for the purpose of clarity and style. M...

I'm way behind, and it's time to catch up. Here's what you need to know. Over the winter of 1971-1972, Richard Nixon still looked vulnerable. Things were bending in the right direction for him, but as lat...

March 26, 2012 Al-Awda Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition again appeals to all people of conscience to take immediate action to help save the life of Palestinian female political prisoner Han...

This letter was given to Masha's friends by one of her lawyers, Nikolay Polozov. It was written back when she didn't have an opportunity to pass letters to anyone. She was transferred to a more desnely-...

March 26, 2012 Avtonom At some point last year our wiki, including the prisoner list, got broken, but during last weeks we have recovered it. Starting point is here: http://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.ph...

March 26, 2012 Ma'an News Agency A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in I...

[image: David Lyell is a 13-year veteran LAUSD teacher, and secretary of United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA).]By David Lyell First published in the Huffington Post Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Super...

March 23, 2012 | Machetera **I suppose the Latin American term for an apples and oranges comparison is *peras y manzanas.* [Pears and apples.] Somehow it doesn’t have quite the same ring. In Spain, the e...

If Israel's 1981 bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities teaches us anything, it's that the quickest way to help the Iranians make up their minds is to attack them. On 7 June 1981 a phalanx of Israeli F-16 fi...

The financial institutions overseeing the bailouts are ignoring the domestic impacts of austerity measures. Who is rescued by the bailouts of the European debt crisis? The question won't go away. Last wee...

Mar 22, 2012 By STAN LEHMAN Associated Press SAO PAULO — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting cl...

An annual Easter egg hunt in Colorado was canceled this year. Parents jumped in and helped kids gather chocolate eggs last April, said the sponsors. Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hun...

March 24, 2012 Michael Macor / The Chronicle Ronald Bridgeforth, with wife Diane and sister Connie Bridgeforth in November, fled in the '60s. In an emotional and at times tense court hearing, a 67-year-ol...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- Police in St. Petersburg have detained more than 10 protesters who tried to march down the Russian city's main avenue following an opposition rally. Several hundred people ...

The man's body, pants around his ankles, was discovered by a mourner in Calvary Cemetery Sunday morning; victim not immediately identified. A half-naked man was found dead in a Queens cemetery Sunday morn...

Trayvon Martin's parents Tracy Martin, left, and Sybrina Fulton, at the Million Hoodie March in Union Square, New York, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Photo from AP / Shakesville.From a lifetime in criminal just...

March 21, 2012 SF BayView* by Mary Ratcliff * Families of prisoners have come out of the shadows since last year’s hunger strikes and taken on much of the work of recruiting the 400 prisoners who signed t...

(Reuters) - Thousands of Tunisian Islamists took to the streets on Sunday to step up their demands for the creation of an Islamic state in one of the most secular Arab nations. About 8,000 conservative S...

After squinting through binoculars into a nation frozen in time, US President Barack Obama reeled off a contempt-laden and startlingly frank indictment of North Korea. The Stalinist remnant of the Cold W...

PREVIOUSLY: A student was shot to death at a Mississippi State University residence hall late Saturday night, prompting campus-wide alerts as authorities searched for suspects who fled the scene. The unive...

March 22, 2012 Electronic Intifada Israeli forces arrest and detain four youth near Beit Ommar, January 2011. (Palestine Solidarity Project) Since 1967, Palestinians from the West Bank have been living ...

A scandal that began with an act of vigilantism is threatening to breed more of the same, after a weekend of escalating tension saw militant activists announce a $10,000 (£6,300) reward for the "capture" ...

ROME -- Venice appears to have more nicknames than street names. It’s known as the "Queen of the Adriatic," the "City of Water," "City of Masks," "City of Bridges," "The Floating City," and "City of Canal...

Neal Katyal, who as acting US Solicitor General defended the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's flagship health reform in lower courts, has warned in an interview with AFP of "grave" and "profo...

Actor and activist funds a hi-tech project that is tracking troops and warning civilians of attacks Nathaniel Raymond is the first to admit that he has an unusual job description. "I count tanks from spac...

The attorney counseling George Zimmerman, who shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin as he was walking home from the store with a bag of Skittles, says if charges are filed, Zimmerman will argue that h...

The Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney announced they were launching "a thorough and independent review" of the shooting -- will there be justice? *March 20, 2012* | The Progress Report...

It's been almost one year since I posted a review of the popularity of Filipino free market blogs (ie, blogs advocating free market and individual liberty by Filipinos) based on their global ranks in the a...

Although one of my closest friends, David Kahne, was the head of A&R at his label and never stopped raving about what a star he was, I never met Jeff Buckley or saw him perform. And his father, Tim, was ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The city’s former traffic commissioner has a new plan to put tolls on East River bridges. But this proposal has some novel “selling points,” including a first-ever toll for cyclist...

(FOX News) - The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of UN-style immunity that would shield i...

NEW KENSINGTON (KDKA) — Officials with the Valley School District in New Kensington are bracing for a legal battle with an atheist group that’s threatening a lawsuit if a Ten Commandments monument is not ...

Reflecting on the conflict between Christianity and secularisation in Britain, Dr Rowan Williams said he not believe the Church was losing the debate, but faced a "lot of ignorance and rather dim-witted pr...

Things are not adding up in the Whitney Houston death. The LA County coroner says Houston died from accidental drowning. They also found cocaine in her system and five other drugs. She also had coronary ...

ELK GROVE (CBS13) – You’ve heard the saying smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. But if you got ‘em and you live in an apartment complex in Elk Grove, the luxury of lighting up may soon go up in smoke. “i think it’...

A federal judge Thursday turned down a request to halt the killing of California sea lions at Bonneville Dam, clearing the way for wildlife officials to remove up to 30 animals this year. The Humane Soci...

Craig Monteilh describes how he pretended to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats, shining a light on some of the bureau's more ethically murky practices Tuesday 20 March 2012 gua...

*Be in DC this weekend! * *But if you can't, watch it all on LiveStream. * *Details here. * *Occupy the DOE in DC, Friday, March 30th: Take Our Message to Capitol Hill* *10:00 a.m.* *Welcome Rally at the...

Three more Western soldiers gunned down by their Afghan counterparts today, two Brits, one American. Attacks by our Afghan allies on Western forces now rank second only to improvised explosive devices ...

The Government has asked China to investigate the mysterious death of a British businessman which may be linked to a political scandal that has engulfed the Communist Party. Neil Heywood, who was in his ...

An unemployed Austrian man has sawed off his left foot, apparently to avoid being found fit enough to go back to work. Police said the "desperate" 56-year-old man deliberately sliced it off above the ank...

More blunders by the under-fire UK Border Agency allowed up to 50,000 bogus students to enter Britain illegally, a damning report has revealed. Flaws in the student visa system were exploited by migrants ...

A Tibetan man who set himself on fire in New Delhi to protest against this week's visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao will be lucky if he survives, according to doctors. The 27-year-old doused himself i...

Barack Obama's rivals for the White House have pounced on controversial comments he thought he had made in private to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The US President was overheard on an open mic...

*Obama is the Voice of Sauron.** * "I have become worried, however, in recent years, that the movies have come to replace the reading of 'The Lord of the Rings.' Yours is an imminently visual culture, ...

*Benjamin Fulford* *This summary of Ben Fulford's post by Kauilapele on March 26, 2012* *Full Ben Fulford Post Available here: *http://benjaminfulford.net/ Ben confirms that the final take down of th...

Hong Kong is generally known for its free port, free trade economy. Certain goods and services that are not available, or available but at a higher price in many countries, are accessible in Hong Kong. Tha...

*As we all know, high prices at the pump are part of an administration plot, at least according to President-to-be Willard Inc. -- "the sort of thing," says Paul Krugman, "you used to hear only from people...

* * * * *Message from SaLuSa by Mike Quinsey - March 26, 2012* In some ways we would say that our mission nears completion, as we approach a time when all of the work put in to release you from the ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world’s largest economy is having its lifeblood sucked out of it. Between now and 2014 the US Federal government will have taken $20 trillion out of the US economy and pou...

You now how excited NZers have got over being told that after many years of division we’re now “close allies” of the US who “punch above our weight”? Turns out Obama is an easy lay. Turns out all countri...

Unless you know a fisherman, you never really know where they catch the fish. Like maybe in this zone: [original photo] Or in the oil spill zones. Or in the zone affected by that gigantic island of plast...

Four months ago a bare majority, 53% of Americans, thought US soldiers should no longer be fighting that conflict. Today that number stands at 69%. In November less than half of Americans surveyed thou...

At the NYT Nate Silver has a great post up on the ability of political scientists to predict elections based on "fundamentals" such as the state of the economy. Silver asks: Can political scientists “p...

*Guest post by Jeff Clark of the **Casey Daily Dispatch** * Most economists, especially those from the mainstream, will tell you that price inflation is widely expected to remain benign for the foreseeab...

*"What a teacher can do – all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts...

Over at Post Politics, I argued we're all "lawyers" when it comes to the Constitution -- that is, almost all of us, almost always, interpret the Constitution to make it consistent with our substantive pref...

As we watch another media High Street outlet chain stumble and fall we have to ask if there is a retail future for digital media on the High Street? This may sound a very stark viewpoint but digital has c...

*"Everybody's a Target in the American Surveillance State"* By John W. Whitehead “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”- A senior intelligence official previously involved with ...

*“Preparing for the Unimaginable”* by Dave Pollard “One of the lessons of Nassim Taleb’s “The Black Swan” is that the events that have caused the greatest changes (and collectively most of the substanti...

*"You Are the One You Are Waiting for: Turn to Yourself"* by The DailyOM "Ultimately, you are the one. We spend a lot of our lives looking for role models, mentors, teachers, and gurus to guide us on our ...

*“Preparing for the Unimaginable”* by Dave Pollard “One of the lessons of Nassim Taleb’s “The Black Swan” is that the events that have caused the greatest changes (and collectively most of the substanti...

*"It's a Dead-Man-Walking Economy"* By Doug Casey, Casey Research "In an interview with Louis James, the inimitable Doug Casey throws cold water on those celebrating the economic recovery. [Skype rings: I...

"I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question i...

I had a few errands to run today on my last day off but I did want to take time to explore along the river, more specifically the Snye. The Snye is one of my favorite spots to go birding and while I didn't...

Digby, John and I host a lot of Democrats when they come to L.A.-- but mostly progressive ones and rarely high-ranking members of the Beltway Establishment. So we were shocked recently when the chief-of-s...

it's been a year or two since I was last invited onto Chris & Sheree's TRUTH FREQUENCY radio show out of Texas, USA. The subject of Monday 26th March's Truth Frequency LIVE SHOW, my hour and a half segme...

If you haven't yet seen Rick Santorum's amazing "Obamaville" ad, you really should...I'll send you over to Paul Waldman's nice take on the apocalyptic video to watch it. Come back when you've seen it. Rea...

R. v. Catenacci, 2012 ONCA 187 deals with restitution orders and makes clear an inquiry as to ability to pay is a condition precedent to making an order. As such orders are increasingly seen in criminal a...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 55.1 km (34.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:29 UTC Monday 26th March 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) South of HAGATNA, Guam No T...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:27 UTC Monday 26th March 2012 The epicenter was 570 km (354 miles) East of Clippe...

The editorial policy of the *Washington Post* now acknowledges that global warming is not only real but a very real threat to the United States that demands urgent action. The paper has also come out une...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:12:54 UTC Monday 26th March 2012 The epicenter was 863 km (536 miles) SSW from Ac...

On Saturday there were not one but two Occupy actions in New York City. The first was a rally and then march from Zuccotti Park to Union Square, to protest suppression of free speech. Somebody gave me th...

RealClimate.org has published a very informative article, *"Extremely Hot"*by Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou that explores the impacts of even modest one or two degree C warming on severe climate events su...

Two stories in the past day about the American Legislative Exchange Council – combined with a webpage that I found on ALEC’s website – made me think – I better publish this. You have this today from the...

Tom Mulcair makes Murray Dobbins uncomfortable. In the latest *Tyee*, Dobbins succinctly lays out the problem: *Two things shocked me about this race and its final two days. The first is that so many NDP...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:27 UTC Monday 26th March 2012 The epicenter was 541 km (336 miles) East of Clippert...

A few months ago, I ran an item reminding everyone that it's a complete waste of time to ask potential candidates whether they would serve as a running mate. The story is that there are lots of good reason...

Another warning that our federal government is "beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate." This time it's Andrew Nikiforuk writing in the latest *Tyee*. *Any Canadian listening...

This week's award must go to the various people who are seemingly shocked to discover that donating money to the government party ensures you access to the men at the top of that governing party. 'Money b...

Gently lifted from Bret at the wonderful Anything But Atheist. Robert Bales – Lone Nut or Scapegoat? What are the Americans hiding? Justin Raimondo March 25, 2012 Antiwar" - The murder of 17 Afghan civilia...

LALITPUR: Some 8,500 chickens have been culled and 1,500 eggs destroyed in Lalitpur, following the detection of the avian influenza (H5N1) causing bird flu there. The bird flu virus was detected in chick...

Anand: A confirmed case of swine flu (H1N1 influenza) was reported in Rampura locality of Bakrol in Anand -- the first in Gujarat after the previous nation-wide outbreak of the epidemic. "Ghanshyam Ratho...

CHIMAYO, N.M. (AP) - A 20-acre wildfire near Chimayo yesterday forced the evacuation of some residents. The New Mexico State Forestry Division said the fire along Highway 91 in northern New Mexico threate...

A heavy, winter-like storm dumped showers across Los Angeles County Sunday, soaking the San Fernando Valley, causing fender benders on the freeways, flooding at intersections, and curtailing a popular sup...

I was listening to NPR this morning, as they discussed Dick Cheney’s recent heart transplant this past Saturday. The news pushed me to tears. The 71 year old Cheney is an anomaly in the transplant busines...

The writ has been dropped, and Albertans will go to the polls on April 23. The past few years have been wildly turbulent, with shocking municipal votes, the rise of the Wildrose, parties desanctioned and f...

A gas leak at Total's Elgin oil and gas platform in the North Sea, which led to the evacuation of all 238 workers, continued on Monday with observers claiming the sea looked as if it was "boiling". Worke...

The issues of Canada have drifted from my mind strikingly fast now that I'm in Honduras, but it all came rushing back to me this morning when I read the judgment handed down by the Court of Appeal in Ontar...

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